THE ARTS JOURNAL CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, HISTORY, ART AND CULTURE OF GUYANA AND THE CARIBBEAN Volume 6 Numbers 1&2 September 2010 Home and Away from Home Front Cover: Donald Locke The Home of the Who-You Bird, 2005. Pencil on paper Contents: Words and Images from Mexico: Four Poems, Four Works. Eliff Lara Astorga Sonnet to a Love Lost at Fort Groyne. Brenda Chester DoHarris An Interview with Wilson Harris. Michael Gilkes The Town and I. Stephanie Bowry Tale of Another Crossing: Brigid Wells: The Diary. Roxana Kawall To The Running of My River. Grace Nichols The Distinctive Indo-Caribbean Art and Voice of Harold Sonny Ladoo. Professor Victor J. Ramraj Welcome to the Plantation: Three Novels by David Dabydeen. Keith Jardim VISUAL ARTS: The Artist Donald Locke: Notes on a Career and its Development. Carl E. Hazelwood CREATIVE WRITING: New Poems by Stanley Greaves Poems by Grace Nichols New Poems by Mahadai Das Poems by Stephanie Bowry Poems by Cicely Rodway An extract from ‘Moving House’ ... a Guyana childhood. Michael Gilkes An extract from Tell Us We’re Home. Marina Budhos BOOK REVIEWS: Mariam Pirbhai. Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture: Novels of the South Asian Diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific. Ameena Gafoor Cyril Dabydeen. Imaginary Origins: Selected Poems 1970-2002. Mariam Pirbhai Edward Baugh. Frank Collymore: A Biography. Ameena Gafoor Wilson Harris, The Ghost of Memory. Michael Gilkes N.D. Williams. Julie Mango. Frank Birbalsingh Particia Dathan. Bauxite, Sugar and Mud: Memories of Living in Colonial Guyana 192-1944. Frank Birbalsingh Rex Nettleford. Dance Jamaica: Renewal and Continuity: The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica 1962-2008. L’Antoinette Osunide Stines Lawrence Hill. The Book of Negros. Judith Misrahi-Barak PRICE: In Guyana: G$2,500.00. All other countries: US$20.00 plus nominal postage. FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS: Ameena Gafoor: [email protected] or Telephone: 592 227 6825 Bernadette Persaud: [email protected] or Telephone: 592 220 3337 For BACK ISSUES are available Website: www.theartsjournal.org.gy.